hi,
i have an 8.5 10 bolt and it has 4 bolts, not C-clips. do i have another option of removing the axles without buying a slide hammer?? i cant even find someone who would rent it to me. they say you can put the drum brake on backwardss and work with that??

i also run a 8.5 10 bolt with press on bearings in my 76 el camino. mine has 3.73 gears from richmond and the powertrax unit from them, so yes they do make one for this style rear end. i used the backing plates that were already on the rearend to pull the axles out. i just beat them back and forth between the axle tubes and the flange on the end of the axles. not the best method but it worked. if you do get a powertrax i think youll be pleased, i love mine and i give it hell

If you have a Hotchkiss like a 9" Ford or my '56 Olds, you need a puller. The chain trick works some times but other times if the axles are stuck you need a slide hammer. Here is the hammer I welded up out of scraps from my steel bin about 10 years ago. As you can see, there isn't an axle made that could stand against that mondo slide!! Not for use on C-clip Salisbury type axles obviously.

If you are correct and that isn't a C-clip rear, then my puller would work. You slip the "C" shaped bracket on the right of it over the wheel flange of the axle and pull on it with the slide hammer. Will work on any axle held by a pressed on bearing/retainer plate.

i also run a 8.5 10 bolt with press on bearings in my 76 el camino. mine has 3.73 gears from richmond and the powertrax unit from them, so yes they do make one for this style rear end. i used the backing plates that were already on the rearend to pull the axles out. i just beat them back and forth between the axle tubes and the flange on the end of the axles. not the best method but it worked. if you do get a powertrax i think youll be pleased, i love mine and i give it hell

is it possible to install the powertrax with the axle in? it would be alot easier to work on instead of removing the axles.

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